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[London]
Dec 27. 1843
My dearest Miss Mitford that you shd ever for a moment conclude from my silence, that I was tired of you, is an extravagance of conjecture I did not attribute to you!– The fact is I have not been well, & had a good deal of perforce writing to do notwithstanding; & then I did not like to write briefly to you with the news of my being unwell, & so buzz in your ear with a disquieting thought to no good end. I caught cold in a mystery. Fancy my catching cold through my hermetical sealing! I caught a very ordinary cold,—just such a cold

[London]
Dec 27. 1843
My dearest Miss Mitford that you shd ever for a moment conclude from my silence, that I was tired of you, is an extravagance of conjecture I did not attribute to you!– The fact is I have not been well, & had a good deal of perforce writing to do notwithstanding; & then I did not like to write briefly to you with the news of my being unwell, & so buzz in your ear with a disquieting thought to no good end. I caught cold in a mystery. Fancy my catching cold through my hermetical sealing! I caught a very ordinary cold,—just such a cold